Blood transfusion and cancer surgery outcomes: A continued reason for concern

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 344-354

  Al Refaie, Waddah B ^a   Parsons, Helen M ^a   Markin, Abraham ^a   Abrams, Jerome ^a   Habermann, Elizabeth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CYSTECTOMY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM RESECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865784248     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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